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27 US Roasters Named Good Food Awards Finalists in Ethiopia-Dominated List
Twenty seven U.S. coffee roasting companies have been named as finalists by the Good Food Foundation in the 2018 Good Food Awards. The awards program, now in its eighth year, celebrates...
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JAB-Backed ‘Trade’ Selling Coffees from 50 Prominent US Roasters
A new home coffee service called Trade launched today, selling roasted, bagged coffees from dozens of prominent, quality-forward U.S. roasters, as well as related brewing equipment. Yet unlike many of...
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Toronto Coffee & Tea Expo Returning April 14-15
After selling out in its inaugural year, the consumer-focused Toronto Coffee & Tea Expo is returning to occupy a larger venue, with expanded program offerings and more vendors from throughout...
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Kraft Heinz Acquires Vancouver Roasting Company Ethical Bean
The Canadian subsidiary of global food giant Kraft Heinz Company has acquired longtime Vancouver roasting company Ethical Bean Coffee. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. While the...
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A Look Back at East Coast Coffee Madness in Bustling Montreal
A city entrenched in European tradition with strong French and Italian influences, Montreal has seen a specialty coffee boom with new roasters and cafes in recent years, building on the...
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Canoe Coffee Rows Into Lovely Roastery Cafe in Kelowna, B.C.
Earlier this month, Canadian company Canoe Coffee Roasters packed up and portaged on to a new, larger facility where retail and production are finally paddling from the same boat. The...
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Vancouver’s 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters to Tap Into Claridge Investment
Renowned Vancouver, British Columbia-based coffee roasting company 49th Parallel is poised to expand its boundaries, announcing a strategic partnership with the Montreal, Quebec, investment firm...
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Manic Pixie Dream Coffee Awakens in Niagara
As if born out of starlight, a manic pixie dream has appeared amidst the winterlong slumber in the Niagara region of Ontario. This particular vision belongs to Manic Pixie Dream...
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Canadian Roasting Society Spreads the Co-Roasting Concept to Montreal
The shared roastery concept has officially found footing north of the border with the opening of the Canadian Roasting Society (CRS) in Montreal, Quebec. CRS is designed to give cafe...
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Reunion Drops the Island, Rebrands as Reunion Coffee Roasters
Ontario, Canada’s Reunion Coffee Roasters, formerly known as Reunion Island Coffee, has executed a complete rebranding to enhance its social mission while eliminating island-related confusion among...
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The New Pallet Coffee Roastery and HQ is Fully Jacked in Vancouver
With a production roastery, a training area and an expansive retail bar covering some 7,000 square feet, the newest location of Pallet Coffee Roasters is all jacked up in Vancouver,...
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In Toronto, Barocco Coffee Breaks Bread at First Brick-and-Mortar Shop
With nine years under its belt serving the Toronto, Ontario, area wholesale market with Italian-roast blends and single origin coffees, Barocco Coffee Company has opened its first brick-and-mortar...
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Receiver Coffee is Loud And Clear With New Prince Edward Island Roastery
Along Canada’s Atlantic coast, amidst the quiet Prince Edward Island offseason, new sounds are clamoring and smells wafting from the Creamery Boardwalk on the North River bridge, where Receiver Coffee...
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Second Cup Company Acquires Ottawa’s Bridgehead Coffee for $7.1 Million USD
The corporation behind Canadian coffee retail giant Second Cup has acquired longtime Ottawa, Ontario-based roaster and retailer Bridgehead in a deal worth $9.5 million Canadian (approximately $7.1...
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Nemesis Coffee Makes New Friends at Second Bar and Bakery in Vancouver
Drab purveyors of subpar coffee and boring pastries in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area may need to watch their backs. Nemesis Coffee, whose inventive Gastown bakehouse and multiroaster bar...
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20 New Roasteries in 2019: Craft Beer Brewers Are Everywhere
To witness the convergence of the specialty coffee and craft beer industries has been like watching an espresso extraction emerge from a bottomless portafilter. This year especially, that extraction...
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Matchmaker Coffee Wants to Help People Find Lasting Love
Anyone who’s Tinder’d, Bumble’d, Farmers Only’d or Gluten Free Singles’d their way through the modern dating landscape is bound to have come across some duds. Even finding just the right...
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Tracking Roasted Specialty Coffee Retail Prices and Other Changes During...
Since 2014, the Specialty Coffee Retail Price Index (SCRPI) has tracked online retail prices charged by a representative group of United States and Canadian specialty coffee roasters. SCRPI reports...
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Gustavo Castelar of Firebat Coffee Roasters on the Joys of Salvadoran...
Of all the small roasteries to open throughout Southern Ontario in recent years, few are able to offer as direct a connection to coffee’s origin than Firebat Coffee Roasters. Firebat...
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Harken Coffee Calls in Vancouver BC’s Japantown Neighborhood
Lauded barista and former Audabe Coffee proprietor Eldric Stuart has opened a new shop in the Japantown neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, called Harken Coffee, with house-roasted coffees a...
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